Jonathan Englert
Co-Founder
RedPhoneCyber
Jonathan Englert is the founder of AndironGroup (www.andirongroup.com) He is a noted communications strategist specializing in disruptive technology, cybersecurity and the sharing economy and building movements around concepts, areas of expertise and platforms. He is the founder of RedPhoneCyber, the first-of-its-kind cyber crisis communications team.
As a journalist, he has written for The New York Times and many other publications on issues ranging from public affairs to technology to adventure sports. Jonathan is regularly commissioned to produce books, speeches and media commentary for well-known public, political and business figures. The Chicago Tribune called his full-length nonfiction book The Collar (Houghton Mifflin 2006) "an impressive portrait". He is the recipient of the Nona Balakian Award for Literary Criticism, the Sackett Graduate Award for law and journalism, a grant from The Louisville Institute (a Lily Foundation partner) and a Maxwell Award for Best Novel.
In 2012, his work was nominated to the final voting round of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism's 100 Great Stories. He holds a B.A from Bard College and an M.S. with Honors from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. He is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Sydney which seeks to better define the nature of technological (and other) invention.